Keywords: Byzantine - Necklace - Walters 57544 - View A.jpg Wealthy women in the Byzantine Empire favored elaborate necklaces such as these Pearls and emeralds from Egypt were most highly prized although amethysts evoked the imperial use of the color purple century 5 7 Late Antique gold amethysts green glass beads and pearls cm 17 5 21 0 8 accession number 57 544 35055 Dikran Kelekian New York and Paris date and mode of acquisition unknown Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1909 Early Christian and Byzantine Art Baltimore Museum of Art Baltimore 1947 Jewelry - Ancient to Modern The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1979-1980 Gold Jewelry Craft Style and Meaning from Mycenae to Constantinopolis Museum of Art Rhode Island School of Design Providence 1983 Objects of Adornment Five Thousand Years of Jewelry from the Walters Art Gallery Baltimore Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum New York; Chrysler Museum of Art Norfolk; Carnegie Museum of Art Pittsburgh; San Antonio Museum of Art San Antonio; Philbrook Museum of Art Tulsa; Honolulu Academy of Arts Honolulu; New Orleans Museum of Art New Orleans; Milwaukee Art Museum Milwaukee; Minneapolis Institute of Arts Minneapolis; Toledo Museum of Art Toledo; The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art Sarasota 1984-1987 Jewelry from the Walters Art Museum and the Zucker Family Collection The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1987 Byzantium 330-1453 Royal Academy of Arts London 2008 place of origin Egypt Walters Art Museum license Ancient Roman art in the Walters Art Museum Byzantine and Early Russian art in the Walters Art Museum Jewellery in the Walters Art Museum Byzantine necklaces Byzantine art in Egypt |